The Folklore of Warwickshire
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Exploring the folklore and folk life of Warwickshire. I can also be found at @hilaryrsparkes.bsky.social
F.W. Bennett, Tiddyoody Pie (1930)
📷 by me. May not actually be from a gibbeted man as they haven't had a gibbet round here since 1975 🙂
📷 by me. May not actually be from a gibbeted man as they haven't had a gibbet round here since 1975 🙂
November 12, 2025 at 8:26 AM
F.W. Bennett, Tiddyoody Pie (1930)
📷 by me. May not actually be from a gibbeted man as they haven't had a gibbet round here since 1975 🙂
📷 by me. May not actually be from a gibbeted man as they haven't had a gibbet round here since 1975 🙂
📷 - Elizabethan silver coin via Wikimedia Commons
November 11, 2025 at 8:14 AM
📷 - Elizabethan silver coin via Wikimedia Commons
That's rather cool. Thanks for sharing🦉🪨
November 9, 2025 at 10:07 AM
That's rather cool. Thanks for sharing🦉🪨
Hopefully new town will stay civilised.
When I moved I actually checked out book on local hauntings to make sure the places I was house-hunting didn't have any dodgepot ghosts 🙂.
When I moved I actually checked out book on local hauntings to make sure the places I was house-hunting didn't have any dodgepot ghosts 🙂.
November 9, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Hopefully new town will stay civilised.
When I moved I actually checked out book on local hauntings to make sure the places I was house-hunting didn't have any dodgepot ghosts 🙂.
When I moved I actually checked out book on local hauntings to make sure the places I was house-hunting didn't have any dodgepot ghosts 🙂.
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November 9, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Picture used with kind permission from www.ourwarwickshire.org.uk/content/cate...
Me too. The Rollrights is such a cool site
November 8, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Me too. The Rollrights is such a cool site
📷 Rose gall, aka Robin's Pincushion by Alan Murray-Rust, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
November 8, 2025 at 8:25 AM
📷 Rose gall, aka Robin's Pincushion by Alan Murray-Rust, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
I'm intrigued? I never saw the series.
November 8, 2025 at 8:17 AM
I'm intrigued? I never saw the series.
That's interesting - the tricksy nature of the wood contibuting to the folklore. I knew about elder's association with witches but not fairies.
November 7, 2025 at 5:02 PM
That's interesting - the tricksy nature of the wood contibuting to the folklore. I knew about elder's association with witches but not fairies.
Graves uses the idea of megaliths/acupuncture needles so it may have been him🪨
November 7, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Graves uses the idea of megaliths/acupuncture needles so it may have been him🪨
Source: Arthur J. Evans, “The Rollright Stones and Their Folk-lore” (1895)
📷 by me. Part of the Kings’ Men stone circle at the Rollrights
📷 by me. Part of the Kings’ Men stone circle at the Rollrights
November 7, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Source: Arthur J. Evans, “The Rollright Stones and Their Folk-lore” (1895)
📷 by me. Part of the Kings’ Men stone circle at the Rollrights
📷 by me. Part of the Kings’ Men stone circle at the Rollrights
I didn't have any bridesmaids when I got hitched but definitely would have if I could have made them wear bat wings😀🦇🦇🦇
November 5, 2025 at 9:28 AM
I didn't have any bridesmaids when I got hitched but definitely would have if I could have made them wear bat wings😀🦇🦇🦇
Source: J. Harvey Bloom, Folk Lore, Old Customs and Superstitions in Shakespeare Land (1929).
📷 by me
📷 by me
November 5, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Source: J. Harvey Bloom, Folk Lore, Old Customs and Superstitions in Shakespeare Land (1929).
📷 by me
📷 by me